The 2025 edition of the US Open will be staged in New York from August 24 to September 7, with two clear favorites in the men's tournament. The reference is obviously to Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, who have become the new leaders of the tour and have won the last seven Grand Slam titles. The Italian and the Spaniard faced each other in the final at both Roland Garros and the Wimbledon Championships, proving that they have a clear advantage over all their opponents right now.
The world No.1 will start the final Major of the season as defending champion and his game is perfectly suited to this surface, as well as having regained confidence after the disappointment at Roland Garros thanks to his first career triumph at Wimbledon a few weeks ago.
The 22-year-old Spaniard failed to lift his third trophy in a row at Church Road, but he has already clinched five titles this season and achieved memorable success in Paris by cancelling out three match points for his top rival in the final.
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Jannik and Carlos have shared the last seven Slam titles
Behind Jannik and Carlos, it is not easy to identify the third favorite for the title in the Big Apple. Novak Djokovic is aiming to become the oldest ever to triumph in a Grand Slam and has no intention of giving up, while Alexander Zverev is trying in every way to break this curse.
In an exclusive interview with 'Tennishead', Barry Cowan expressed some interesting considerations a few weeks before the US Open: Right now, I dont see anyone knocking off Djokovic. Obviously, hes obviously not been able to win the last seven majors, because thats been dominated by Sinner and Alcaraz, but, you know, Im not ruling Djokovic out, because when youve won it 24 times, and hes made semi-finals at all three Majors this year, so, you know, hes not far off, but, you know, as things stand at the moment, for someone to win a major, the way the rankings are, you might have to get through three of them.
